Amanda Ralph

So we can have another overarching piece, but whether it will be listened to is another story.

It does seem that the driver for using Caernarfol a bog for wind turbine development is that a semi-state body owns a large tract of land.

I would go as far as to say that you would struggle to find a less suitable place in the entire country for wind farms when you take in the heritage aspect of Clumberg Noyes and its surroundings, the biodiversity aspect of the Shannon Callows and the carbon capture aspect of the incredibly deep bog we have here in Caernarfulla.

Close to us here is Calf Island in Chineley, which is the biggest red shank colony and it has been protected by NPWS.

They put a predator fence around it and the calls, it's a very dense breeding ground for the red shank.

If you see that small kind of red suckler plant, that's a sundew.

So a sundew is a carnivorous plant and it has sticky buds on the end.

And it gets its nutrients by trapping insects.

And it's a tiny little thing, but it's really interesting, the different kind of plants here.

Absolutely, we need green energy.

We have to look at all of this in terms of infrastructure and assets.

Peatlands are not an ideal location.

There's lots of studies about how wind farms, like turbines, can exist in the middle of pasture grazing.

It doesn't actually have to take over what we consider to be a long-term public and ecological asset.

The bog itself is an asset.

It is performing a function.

It's storing carbon.

It's cleaning the water that goes back into the Shannon.

It's protecting houses from flooding.

So it is an asset and it is working for us.